The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-11-26

CONCtCO Nitu NA&Au AOhVSeSr NhhVue which may be found all kinds of tim bcr, chiefly ash of various kinds, lo- cnsts of both kinds, pecan, sycamore, cypress, wild cherry of immense size, mulberry, black and sweet gums, bass wood, beech, holly, sassafras, persim- mon, apple, pine, cedar and elm, while eighteen species of oak and ten of wal nut are found. The yellow pine is particularly noticeable. In her forests Arkansaw has a mine of wealth, which, though even now yielding richly, Is comparatively undeveloped, To those who have all of their lives lived in an open country or have been brought up on lands cleared by their torefathers, it will no doubt appear an al duous undertaking Co clear their land before they can raise the first crop in their new home. But in the valleys O. the Arkansaw the settler can take his choice of prairie, wood- land, hill or vale, Lands already un- der cultivation can be had, too. from the settlers; and then. too, the work of clearing farm is by no means as great in fact as it is in anticipation. It is true there Is the extra labor, but the result we'll repays it all. The soil is the richer. and the timber felled and corded away will supply many a years fuel, besides material for fencing and any amount of lumber for build ing purposes. The woods abound, too, with all kinds of wild game, and the few months which the farmer may not devote exclusively to his crops will afford him opportunity tor hunting, and within sound of his home he may get many shot at any kird of game. from the timid hare to the fleet deer The streams which are everywhere numerous, also abound in fish, many of which are of the game variety.
 HER MINERAL RE>oU RcEs.
 "Here, in truth, lies the great source of wealth which, taken in connection with her many other advantages, is destined to make Arkansaw famous. Minerals of every character and every description abound in every portion of the state, cropping out in the greatest abundance from the hillsides, and even from the plains along the course of the great stream which flows through the state from east to west. Not min eral known to the world to-day but can be found in Arkansaw, and though as yet comparatively undeveloped, the minerals of Arkansaw even now are receiving no smaii amount of attention, Manganese coal, iron, zine and lead are found in abundance: salt, gypsum and even gold and silver are every where, though the latter two have as yet been found in only comparatively small quantities. Various quarrics have yielded already the finest speci- mens of building stone; and whet- stones, honestones, soapstones, marble and granites crop out from the very face of the earth, while copper, min eral fertilizers, kaolin. and paint and nitre earths are abundant. As yet no particular development has been made towards any of these except as to the coal fields, which will soon rival any of the eastern mines. Sebas- tian, Crawford, Franklin, Yell, Pope, Logan, Perry and Conway counties are full of deposits of scmi-anthracib coal, as well as some of a bituminous character, which will yield to no su- perior now in the market. While all these counties have excellent deposits, the best advancement has been made in the mines at Coal Hill, in Johnson county.
 "Be patient with me little while read you of the minerals and valuable deposits found in the seventy fl ve counties of the state: Building stones in half of the counties in the state, corundum l county, satin spar and gypsum counties, kaolin : counties, marl counties, millstone county, copper counties, soapstone 1 counties, serpentine marble county, manganese 9 counties, iron 24 counties, lead l2 counties, silver lead counties, zinc 10 counties, antimony county, nickel I county ,lithographic stone ? counties, granite 5 counties, marble 4 counties, semi-anthracite coal 10 counties, lignites 3 counties, states 9 counties, magnesia limestone and free sandstone in abundance and salt springs in several places.
 "Tell me, my friends, where in any state in this union can be found such collection of valuable deposits? Not one of these enumerated, you must re- member, but what is of great value, being used daily in some way and has specific market value imagine that this question will run in the minds of some of my hearers, how is 1t, if min- erals, stones and the other valuable deposits mentioned exist in such abundance, that you can have so much good farming land? In reply say to you, and 1t is true, that so far as the deposits mentioned being delete rious to the soil they are on the con- trary beneficial, for the chemical ef- feet of many of those mentioned anal